Detective Branch (DB) police have arrested two drug peddlers with 20,000 pieces of yaba pills from Amirbag area in Chittagong.
The arrestees are Alamgir, 36 and Ayyub Ali, 35.
The police also seized 20,000 pieces of yaba pills worth about Tk 60 lakh and cash money amounting to
Chittagong Metropolitan Police Additional Deputy Commissioner Babul Akter said: “Acting on a tip-off, we conducted a night long drive from Saturday nigh till Sunday morning and detained them with the yaba pills Tk60 lakh.
“The yaba pills were concealed in a digital weighing scale, a electronic metre and in a sound box.”
Meanwhile, they also recovered Tk1.80 lakh from their possession.
He said the drug peddlers have confessed that they were planning to send the yaba pills to different parts of the country through transport agencies.